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It would really be interesting to know roughly how many lurkers a post has reached.

Voat.co has a view counter for both active and archived posts. Not even Reddit has any view counter for each post. It's a thing where Voat is set apart from the other news/media aggregator platforms.

has already reached nearly 1100 views, of which many are lurkers.

I don't know whether Voat counts views like impressions (when viewing the post title in a feed such as the subverse home page), or only when opening the comment page.

But a view count feature would be very much appreciated.

It would really be interesting to know roughly how many lurkers a post has reached. Voat.co has a view counter for both active and archived posts. Not even Reddit has any view counter for each post. It's a thing where Voat is set apart from the other news/media aggregator platforms. [This successful post of mine](https://Voat.co/v/technology/3706479/) has already reached nearly **1100** views, of which many are lurkers. I don't know whether Voat counts views like impressions (when viewing the post title in a feed such as the subverse home page), or only when opening the comment page. But a view count feature would be very much appreciated.

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We have avoided this feature on purpose, here is the logic, we know that 90% of the traffic is lurkers. We one want to encourage those people to engage. Two I think it would discourage people from using subs that are less active.

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I see.

Another consideration would be the ability to just see how many views my own submissions get.

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How would we keep people from sharing that information though?

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If they shared it, it would still be far less visible than an omnipresent view counter in the side bar.

But that's just my two cents.

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Two I think it would discourage people from using subs that are less active.

Low upvote counts could also be somewhat discouraging.

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That is true so shouldn't the goal be getting people to engage and upvote but if I knew how to do that I would be smarter than I am.

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A few suggestions that could help promote smaller subverses:

  • (There is alreads , but an additional index like (but on a smaller scale) would be somewhat more semantic.
  • Multiple subverses of the day (e.g. five or ten subverses)
  • Subverses of the day are not only visible on the home page, but also at the bottom of the side bar while browsing inside subverses. (Alternatively just a few new random subverses each time the page loads.)
  • Maybe a “” button on the subverse shortcut bar at the top could help users discover new subverses.
  • Maybe a list of subverses by recent activity (e.g. posts or comments today, this week, this month) + show the count of posts and comments in that time span. Voat has , but I am not sure how their sorting algorithm works.
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I have another idea for the view counts:

Show views on archived posts only (and maybe only for users at Level 6 or higher).

I have seen several Voat posts with less than 10 upvotes but over 10000 views, meaning that they got most of their attention and relevance from being shared somewhere after archival.